Found a rabbit’s burrow while weeding blueberries today. Little baby foo foo…
Farmers, name this plant! Baptisia is one of those perennial flowers I admire as it begins to tower. It’s a hardy native, nitrogen-fixer that we intentionally plant with our blueberries and will do with our other perennial fruiting canes, bushe
We’re excited to be on the 29th annual @carolinafarms Piedmont Farm Tour again this year. Come out for the tour of course; and stay after at 6pm for delicious pizza made at our farm. We’ll be selling choose your own toppings pies. RSVP li
Sorry we missed folks at @chfarmersmarket today… had to make more progress on a number of projects, including the chicken processing and feed storage pole shed. Beams almost done. Great local pine from @firesidesawmill
In addition to spring bed prep, we’ve been working on building a covered poultry processing and feed storage area before we begin slaughtering in mid-April. The slab was poured back in December before the cold really set in. I handmade all of t
Really great to see these swales in the new orchard slow down and collect rainwater over these last few weeks. As the water sits and gradually permeates the soil, it will stay in the soil longer during droughts and help recharge the veins under the b
In between the wet weather systems these last several weeks, we were able to take advantage of a couple of dry and sunny days to install a large portion of the multi-species orchard during the first phase: apples, dessert pears, pawpaws, Asian persim
Whew! Long day of finishing the new, exquisite brooder for the 2 week old chicks. Here they’re having an infrared sauna party 🎉 The newer chicks are in the other brooder. And the new layers come next week?! 600 baby chicks in a month’s t
Putting together the frame for our new 8x8 chick brooder based on Polyface Farm’s design. Glad we can say goodbye to rackety old brooders as we grow our pastured poultry production for broilers and layers. We’ll be moving 200 2-week old b
Last rotation for *2025* meat birds… these Freedom Rangers were raised through late fall as an attempt to keep the winter market freezers full. Hoping we can process them in late January. Spring meat bird chicks arrive late next week. All weat
About to collect a lot of eggs.
One of summer’s greatest treats.
100 Freedom Rangers ready for a brooder party.
Ripe and ready for our CSA.